cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43788035
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When Mark Epstein heard the news his brother Jeffrey had died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell, he thought that made sense. Jeffrey wouldn’t want to spend his life locked up. He had no reason to doubt it.
“I fully expected them to come out of the autopsy saying, ‘It’s unfortunate, but Jeffrey committed suicide.’ But that’s not what happened,” he told the ABC.
The independent pathologist who Mark hired to attend the autopsy believed the death looked more like a homicide. The New York deputy assistant medical examiner conducting the autopsy said she required further information before making a ruling.


Wait? … I thought the van came the night before and swapped the bodies? I’m so lost.
Like the examiner is right, it’s definitely a homicide - but is that the REAL Jeffrey Epstein? Or Geoffrey Epstein?
I like the killed his body double and exported him to Israel theory. Ghislaine seems to have a double and it’s not really weird for them to have considering their line if work. Everything seems within the capacity of Bill Barr and Mossad.
If Epstein isn’t a total idiot he has valuable information that only he has access to. If Ghislaine simply wants Epstein that’s another reason he could be alive. And then there’s the deadman switch you would assume both Epstein and Maxwell have that never went off.
It really doesn’t add up cleanly any way you look at it.
It makes sense they didn’t kill him in place to avoid anyone overhearing or leaving any trace of a struggle.
They likely told him they would get him out and drove in an ambulance away and took him back when he was dead and strung him up in place.
As a prison guard you should really learn to keep your mouth shut
Pretty sure all those lose ends were cleaned up a few days later.